
«their young ones as they fly, and warble to them — 
Inthe moft- expreflive manner, as it were to ani- — 
7 nate their endeavours, by the ae da of prom | 
y tedion, a 
As an inftance of their actant attachment to 
: tht young, Boerhaave relates, that a Swallow — 
that had been abfent to get provifions, at his re= 
tum finding the houfe on fire, to which his neft 
A, ‘was fixed, darted through the flame, to feed, and 
protect his offspring. es 
Though Swallows pafs much of their time upon — 
ey the wing, yet they often repofe themfelves upon 
the roofs of houfes, chimnies, trees, and fomes 
times. on the ground, — | 
a ‘ In England, towards the clofe of fummer, they 
have been obferved to pafs the night-upon alders, 
a and aquatic trees, or fhrubs; for this purpofe they 
- choofe the loweft branches dias are moft fheltered 
from the wind, | 
_ Two gentlemen, who {pent a night at Maidéns 
e head- -bridge in September, went by torch-light to 
_ 4W/adjacent ifle, and in half an hour brought away 
50 dozen, They had only to draw the willow 
_ twigs through their hands, the birds did not at- 
‘Tempt to efcape : if it be faid that thefe birds were .” 
— alfembled in this manner, in order to plunge un- 
: der the water, it will be objected, that in that. 
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